John Huxtable Elliott

Sir John Elliott is a historian of Spain, Europe and the Americas in the early modern period. He graduated in history at Trinity College Cambridge, of which he was a Fellow from 1954-68, and is now an Honorary Fellow. Subsequently he was Professor of History at King's College, London, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before being appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, a post from which he retired in 1997. He is a winner of the Wolfson Prize and the Balzan Prize for early modern history, and was knighted for his services to history in 1994. A winner of the Prince of Asturias Prize, he has been decorated by the Spanish government, and is a trustee of the Prado Museum. His honorary doctorates include Cambridge, London, Brown University, and several Spanish universities, and he is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is currently working on nationalism and separatism in the history of Scotland and Catalonia. His research and writing have concentrated on the history of Spain, Europe, and the Americas in the Early Modern period, and the interactions between them. His most recent books are Empires of the Atlantic World (2006), a comparative study of British and Spanish colonial America, and History in the Making (2012), an account of developments in historical writing since the 1950's, written from the standpoint of his own experience.